Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Leonardo Bonucci

I wouldn't trade any of the championships I've won for anything.

What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn't know it.

My motto is 'from difficulties up to the stars.' I got a tattoo to represent that when I used to sit in the stands at Treviso.

I want to win all the titles.

Those months at Milan let me do some soul-searching and made me realise that my calling was at Juventus, who are like my family.

Mancini makes us feel good inside and outside of the field.

The national team should unite under one flag, leaving out the club stories.

Juventus have been everything to me over the years. I grew up a lot here and the club always supported me.

There is nothing better than feeling you are a player that youngsters look up to.

I feel I have the Juve shirt sewn to my body because I breathe it every day, but wearing the national team shirt is also an honour.

It is not in the DNA of Juventus to think of a draw.

I met some beautiful people at Milan, first of all Rino Gattuso. It was a difficult year, but that's not to say it was useless.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

You can always learn more.

I will give all I have got to improve my qualities and be important for Juve and for the national team.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

The young Leonardo was a bit too fiery.

This stadium is the history of football, the most important arena in Italy. Stepping into San Siro always has an effect on you.

The players who played for Milan when I was a child are legends for what they've won and given to football. Then, when I got bigger, Nesta became my idol and I went on to become a defender.

What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We're able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

I have always said that for me it would be an honour to continue at Juventus and to end my career here, because it's a shirt you are proud to wear.

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

These technical flicks and tricks come naturally to me and I don't really think about them. I did a backheel against Udinese and the coach would've strangled me if he could have!

Defending is definitely an art.

I understand the fans, I respect them. I'll accept the whistling and booing. It's up to me to transform that all into applause.

I like to look forward, not back.

Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is my property.

I defend my goal as if it were my home. I do my best to defend it and not to allow anyone to score goals or penetrate that. It's true.

In football you should never take anything for granted.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

When I was a kid I was the black sheep of the family because all my uncles and cousins were big Inter fans while I've always been Juve. In fact when I'm injured or suspended I'll be in the stands behind the goal when we're playing - in with the fans where I'm happiest.

I watched a lot of Alessandro Nesta videos, as he had similar characteristics, studied carefully and applied myself.

I live with challenges.

Allegri is very good at managing the locker room in the most difficult moments of a season, to make the team understand how to manage the time of a match.

When you are part of a group for seven years, you leave something - I hope - beautiful inside each of your former team-mates.

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

Juve is my home.

I live for the victory, I can't help myself.

I was struck by the ideas of Sarri, when you see them from outside you get a certain idea but when you are inside you understand the intelligence of a coach who has brought new ideas.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

All families have disagreements, but good often comes of it if they are constructive discussions.

When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.

When the best manager in the world says you're one of his favourite players, you act like it's nothing, but you still can't help but have a smile on your lips.

Cristiano Ronaldo's arrival here at Juventus has been fundamental.

Real Madrid's interest? Yes, it's true, Real Madrid were interested in me. It was an honour and pleasure for me, it means that I have worked well in these years.

To those who call me a mercenary I say that I also had interest from abroad, where I would have earned more. I have chosen Milan because, in my head, there is the idea of repeating the course I had at Juventus, where we had started rebuilding, as in this case, and we came to the top.

Since I was in the youth team I would love to dribble past opponents with a dummy. That tendency got even stronger under Giampiero Ventura at Bari, as we never threw the ball away.

We need to live day by day and to improve.

We are professionals, we have to set the example and not provoke anyone.

The important thing is that when somebody isn't in top form, there is another ready to replace him.

In Europe we know that the great teams always improve and we will have to do battle with them.

I have the fortune of playing with world-class stars.

Sarri is meticulous, passionate about tactics, he likes to make the team play well.

The goal is to be at the top in the spring.

It is exactly in tough times when we discover our full potential, it allows our mind and body to push ourselves beyond our limits.

Being captain of the national team is definitely something you can feel.

The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.

At Treviso, my entire career was in danger; I lost all self-esteem and confidence.

I've always given everything, really, to the end.